“Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” by Masaccio, 1425 [Newberry on Great Art series]

An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series […]

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God Ton podcast on the roots of the culture wars, with Hanif Bali and Per Lindgren

Recorded in Sweden, this interview (in English) with hosts Hanif Bali and Per Lindgren asks: What intellectual and historical sources led to the Culture Wars? The Patreon link for those who would like to sign up to their show: The book in English (audio, text) and in Swedish. Related:

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Rockford, Illinois and the free society (Friedman, Tullock, Coase)

Milton Friedman (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1976) received an honorary doctorate from Rockford College and was our commencement speaker in 1969. Gordon Tullock (co-founder of Public Choice economics with James Buchanan, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1986) was a native of Rockford. And I was charmed to find this bookplate in the Rockford University library’s copy

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La escasez significa que la libertad es perro-come-perro. [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español]

Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 11: La escasez significa

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Werner Sombart on heroes versus merchants

Those of us in the democratic-republican West often find it impossible to understand how the world could go to war so often in the 20th century. We were raised in a culture that had internalized Locke, Jefferson, Mill, and others—for whom the goal of peace and respect for others’ rights to life, liberty, and property

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